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ArticleJournal of interpersonal violence2025

The Role of Complainant/Defendant Gender and Form of Sexual Assault on Jurors' Perceptions of Prototypicality and Verdicts.

Cassandra Starosta, Evelyn Maeder, Craig Leth-Steenson

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Article in Journal of interpersonal violence, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Cassandra StarostaDepartment of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Evelyn MaederDepartment of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2537-7045
Craig Leth-SteensonDepartment of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We sought to test the effects of sexual assault form and complainant/defendant gender on jurors' perceptions of the prototypicality of a sexual assault case, complainant, and defendant. We examined whether these perceived prototypicality measures predict mock jurors' complainant/defendant blame and credibility assessments and if these assessments predict verdict decisions in a simulated sexual assault trial. We predicted that the female complainant-male defendant condition, vaginal intercourse condition, and their combination would be perceived as more prototypical than their counterparts, which would predict blame/credibility assessments, ultimately predicting verdict. Mock jurors (

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Sex OffensesAdultCrime VictimsCriminal LawDecision MakingFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRapeSocial PerceptionYoung Adultfemale defendantsjury decision-makingmale victimsprototypicalityrape mythssexual assault

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PMID39726141
PMCPMC11673309

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